$essays{'Emerson'} = "The American Scholar 
from Addresses, published as part of Nature; Addresses and Lectures
by
Ralph Waldo Emerson 

An Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August
31, 1837 

Mr. President and Gentlemen, 

I greet you on the re-commencement of our literary year. Our anniversary is one
of hope, and, perhaps, not enough of labor. We do not meet for games of
strength or skill, for the recitation of histories, tragedies, and odes, like
the ancient Greeks; for parliaments of love and poesy, like the Troubadours;
nor for the advancement of science, like our contemporaries in the British and
European capitals. Thus far, our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the
survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters
any more. As such, it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct.
announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years?... etc.";